I am constantly looking up definitions of words on my iPhone 5 using SIRI - especially when doing some writing. There's nothing worse than using a word incorrectly when you're trying to sound like you know what you're talking about:-) I ask SIRI, "what is the definition of the word xxx". it brings up the definitions from some dictionary, I'm not sure which one, and she reads out the first definition from the list. I think she searches Wolfran Alpha for the data. Incidentally, I use this for spelling too. If I don't know how to spell a word, there's a good chance SIRI does. I do the same as above, looking for the definition, and then I read the word character by character for the correct spelling. If SIRI can't find the word in the dictionary, she brings up a web search. with wicapedia and other sources listed out. It's one of the most useful features of the iPhone in my opinion. On May 9, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi there > I think I understand your question. Here is how you do the same on the > iPhone. From home screen, and maybe from other screens as well I'm not sure, > you take three fingers and swipe down the springs up the search screen. The > typing your search. Then you look toward the top of the screen and there's > some choices. One is search the web, and the other is Wikipedia. If you > choose search the web, then you get a definition. What is confusing for some > people, at least for me for a while, is that voiceover says search the > iPhone, but it is more extensive than that really. > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 9, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Gabriele Battaglia >> <gabriele.battag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Gigi. >> How do the same on IOS? >> Gabriel. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
